Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 25 January 2023: MBRIF hosted its 12th chapter of its Innovation Journeys series on LinkedIn on the 25 of January 2023. The episode featured MBRIF Noor Sweid, Founder & Managing Partner of Global Ventures.

The Innovation Journeys series is a monthly conversation series on LinkedIn Live conceptualized by MBRIF, where live audiences can watch the world’s talented minds discuss their startup and entrepreneurial journeys, the challenges and roadblocks they faced and how to overcome them. The series is moderated and hosted by Shaker Zainal the Head of MRBIF and Chief mSMEs Officer at EDB. He navigates the session with the guest finding out how they made their way to success followed by a Q&A session from the live audience as well.

This brand-new episode features Noor Sweid - founder, investor and advisor who was identified by Forbes magazine as one of the “World’s Top 50 Women in Tech’’. Having previously been the CIO at The Dubai Future Foundation, Noor was the first Arab woman to scale, IPO and operate a public company in the MENA region. In addition to board roles on Global Ventures’ portfolio companies, Noor is Chairperson of the Middle East Venture Capital Association and Director for MIT Sloan. Come share in Noor’s passion for enabling disruptive technology companies, helping emerging market founders solve real problems while changing the world with measurable impact.